The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-03-05

/ There are now 466 boys confined in the
Lansing Reform School.
I'm aquarrel about woman al Iron
Mountain Louis Pankarey was stabbed TO
death.
John English, hermit, who for forty
years had lived alone in house near Ro-
meo. died recently.
A woman Of Emmett County stole a
dressed hog weighing l60 pounds. carried
1t of. and hid it in snowdrift.
The Democratic State Convention.
which will be held at Detroit, March 2, will
be attended by nearly 7Gl delegates.
Fire recently destroyed the clothing
store of j. NJ. Lenhoff at East Saginaw.
damaging his entire stock, valued at s2o,-
900; insurance. $4,000.
While sitting ut his desk in school,
room at Marquette, lad named Mitchell
was dangerously wounded by the accidental
discharge of pistol in his pocket.
Senator Stockbridge has purchased an
old church edifice and lot in Kalamazoo.
and presented 1t 10 the Young Men Chris
tan Association of that city. The gift is
valued at S7.0oe.
The two doctors in Maybee are bitter
foes. One OF them went 10 the oslice of the
other, locked the door behind him, and be-
gan TO flourish knife and revolver. The
frightened proprietor of the Office called
assistance. and thus escaped with his life.
"A dog that was supposed 10 be mad bit
seventeen sheep near.Highland The own
or OF the animals caused them 10 be killed
and skinned. His hired man got some of
the sleeps blood in a wound on the back
of his hand and the next day died of ter
ror' thinking that he had the hydrophobia.
The Sterling mine at Clarksburg will
start up again soon and work actively dur
ing the summer. The Sterling mine has
been idle since 1882, when il produced
about 10000 tons of ore. Several other
smaller mines in the Marquette County
iron district which have been closed down
Tor several years will be opened again be-
fore May /.
A daring daylight robbery was COM
mitted at Iron Mountain, by which the CITY
Treasurer was robbed of $5,0 cash.
Treasurer A. Il. Kendley kept the money In
q safe in his store. Late in the afternoon
two strangers entered the store ostensibly
TO buy goods. During the temporary alb
sence OF Kendley the two men riied tho
safe and fed
The Bad AK Democrat saws: Several
months ago an agent for a safe company
into Bad Ak and concluded
several sales. Last week the agent for an
other safe company took in the town, and
astonished the purchasers by convincing
them with jack-knife and gimlet that they
had safes with lining Of wood, n filing of
4 sort of mud, and nm iron covering outside
rs thick az a knife blade"
AT Crosse Point, Detroits aristocratic
residence suburb on Lake Sc. Clair, great
deal Of damage has been done by the re-
cent storms. Ice from the lake is piled up
'wenty to forty feet high along the shore.
md for three miles pretty much every
hing is wrecked. Boat houses and docks
IRE torn completely away and destroyed or
10 badly damaged as to spoil all hopes OF
future usefulness. The great cakes of ice
iriven on the shore by the storm of last
week caused the damage. The loss will be
lot less than $4,000.
Report of the Fish Commission.
The seventh biennial report of the State
Board OF Fish Commissioners is lust out
md II Is clear, comprehensive and valua-
Die statement of all details Of the man
cement and results of the States work
n fish culture during the past two years.
I'm idea OF the progress made is we'll pre-
ented IN the sub-report made by Lyman
!. Bnnt, the Statistical Agent of the Com
mission, which is published ms portion
4 the main report. Mr.. Brant shows
hat from September q, 1885. 10 March,
$50, he visited all the fishing stations on
he coast OF each peninsula OF Michigan
ailing only To visit the stations on isle
ioyale. gratifying result of these labors
ms been the largely increased number OF
eports received last year from fishermen
n 1888 eighty reports were made; In 1881
mt nifty reports were received by mail:
'hile last year the number received foois
y 42I. The number and class of fisher
len report ng are as follows: Pound net
shermen, l39; gill net fishermen, los; gill
nj pound net fishermen, 81; seine and
yke net fishermen, 49, total, 127.
From the partial returns furnished tho
Commission has been able TO CLEAN the fol-
,wing statement, which is submitted. not
!. IA Elt rxcts. hat "A.